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Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald was raised to be attractive and marry well. When her brother, her father's favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, Vicky's attempt at vengeance failed. Angry and disappointed, her father forced her to join the Navy.

Now Ensign Vicky Peterwald is part of a whole new world, and her only ally is an unexpected one: Kris Longknife.

There's no rest for a Longknife-even if you're a newlywed. Vice Admiral Kris Longknife's honeymoon gets cancelled when she hears that the space raider's home world may have been discovered. Finding where the raiders came from could be the key to saving humanity. If only uncovering their secrets was that easy. Along the way, she ends up tangling with a mutinous crew and a system filled with strange, deadly enemies poised to wipe another sentient civilization out of existence...

This collection of 4 short stories under one cover: Maid Goes on Strike, Ruthie Longknife's First Christmas, Among the Kicking Birds and Bad Day.

Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald has undergone an unlikely transformation-from pampered heir to naval lieutenant. Now Vicky will need to use both her military and political ranks to rebuild war-torn planets, planets ruined both by the Peterwald Empire and by Kris Longknife's revolutionary quests. When the death-before-dishonor code of the Navy meets the anything-goes-to-win motto of the Imperial family, Vicky must confront, outwit, and conquer both revolutionaries and her own family to stifle galactic disorder.

The aliens attacking the planetary system of Alwa are an enemy unlike any Admiral Kris Longknife has ever encountered before. She doesn't know who they are, only that they worship a being known as the Enlightened One and are unafraid to sacrifice themselves against her fleet. But Kris faces more than just the fanatical behavior of an alien armada. A saboteur has unleashed an epidemic that has infected seventy-two career military women-including Admiral Kris Longknife.

Für Kris Longknife wird ein Traum wahr: Sie erhält ihr erstes Kommando über eine Raumstation. Dazu wird sie allerdings in das entlegene Sternensystem Chance versetzt, eine Beförderung, die zugleich einem Exil gleicht. Doch Kris ist nicht untätig, und bald kommt sie einer Organisation auf die Spur. Die verbirgt auf einem einsamen Planeten höchst fortschrittliche Alien-Technologie, die in ihren Händen eine extreme Gefahr darstellt -